On 2012.5.11 12:03 AM, Peter Kruse wrote:
Macros inside of comments are expanded...
That clearly must be an often requested feature of rpm.
Too lazy to write a full rpm spec parser for the macro expander.
Now it's a feature.
--
'All anyone gets in a mirror is themselves,' she said. 'But
On 13/05/12 01:48 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
The rpmbuild post reminded me of my list of stupid language designer tricks.
This is a file I add to every time I read about some stupid mistake (or
brilliant feature) in a language and think if I ever write a language I am
remembering not to do
On 13 May 2012, at 18:48, Michael G Schwern wrote:
* Lists count from 0
* Everybody does it
* Everybody's wrong
* See also let's just paste what C does
I find it very hard to live with Lua's 1-based arrays. I don't think it's just
familiarity - lots of index calculations work out
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 02:13:28PM -0400, Numien wrote:
On 13/05/12 01:48 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
The rpmbuild post reminded me of my list of stupid language designer
tricks.
This is a file I add to every time I read about some stupid mistake (or
brilliant feature) in a language and
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:48:13AM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
[...]
* Lists count from 0
* Everybody does it
* Everybody's wrong
* See also let's just paste what C does
0's good because it avoids fencepost errors. Perhaps you would prefer the
Stan Kelly-Bootle compromise of 0.5?
On 2012.5.13 3:41 PM, David Cantrell wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 02:13:28PM -0400, Numien wrote:
On 13/05/12 01:48 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
The rpmbuild post reminded me of my list of stupid language designer
tricks.
This is a file I add to every time I read about some stupid mistake
* Andy Armstrong a...@hexten.net [2012-05-13 20:05]:
I find it very hard to live with Lua's 1-based arrays. I don't think
it's just familiarity - lots of index calculations work out
significantly more verbose and ugly with 1-based arrays.
Ever since I’ve dealt with them in XPath I would add
On 2012.5.13 11:36 AM, Peter Corlett wrote:
I'd like to throw in the fun breakage caused by the combination of adding
two unnecessary bits of syntactic sugar to Perl. Somebody decided that
auto-deref would be nice, so you can do each $hashref and pop $arrayref.
And then somebody else clearly
On 2012-05-13, at 19:09, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
* Andy Armstrong a...@hexten.net [2012-05-13 20:05]:
I find it very hard to live with Lua's 1-based arrays. I don't think
it's just familiarity - lots of index calculations work out
significantly more verbose and ugly with 1-based arrays.
On 2012-05-13, at 12:59, Andy Armstrong wrote:
On 13 May 2012, at 18:48, Michael G Schwern wrote:
* Lists count from 0
* Everybody does it
* Everybody's wrong
* See also let's just paste what C does
I find it very hard to live with Lua's 1-based arrays. I don't think it's just
familiarity -
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:48:13AM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
* We'll add threads later.
* Perl
* We'll add classes later.
* C
* Perl
* Everything is a string.
* Tcl
On 2012-05-13, at 20:55, Walt Mankowski wrote:
* We'll add classes later.
* C
Classes were still a kind of experimental idea in 1970, and it wasn't at all clear they'd ever be able to be implemented efficiently in something like C.
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 09:07:56PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2012-05-13, at 20:55, Walt Mankowski wrote:
* We'll add classes later.
* C
Classes were still a kind of experimental idea in 1970, and it
wasn't at all clear they'd ever be able to be implemented
efficiently in something
On May 13, 2012, at 7:13 PM, Walt Mankowski wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 09:07:56PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2012-05-13, at 20:55, Walt Mankowski wrote:
* We'll add classes later.
* C
Classes were still a kind of experimental idea in 1970, and it
wasn't at all clear they'd ever be
On 2012-05-13, at 21:13, Walt Mankowski wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 09:07:56PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2012-05-13, at 20:55, Walt Mankowski wrote:
* We'll add classes later.
* C
Classes were still a kind of experimental idea in 1970, and it
wasn't at all clear they'd ever be able
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